*This review contains spoilers.* True Detective is a dark gritty crime drama that always leaves us on the edge of our seats. After a whirlwind of 7 episodes, it has finally reached the end of […]
Stranger Things 2: The World Turned Upside Down
To quote a rather appropriate 1980s supernatural horror sequel, they’re back! Last week saw us welcomed back to the town of Hawkins, Indiana, where things are indeed stranger… It’s 1984, and, while it has been […]
TV | Prey – An ITV drama that finally begins to live up to Broadchurch
Breaking out of a police van, jumping over and under fences and leading the police on a wild goose chase whilst single-handedly running a murder investigation. DI Marcus Farrow (John Simm) is fighting to prove […]
TV | Boxset Essentials – That 70s Show
That 70s Show does what people of any generation tend to do at one point in their lives – reminisce about how great life was 20 years ago. The show ran from 1998 and 2006, […]
TV | Girls
When Girls emerged two years ago, it’s fair to say it courted its fair share of controversy. Perhaps most shocking was the decision to seemingly exclude anyone with a Y chromosome from attaching themselves to […]
TV | Moonfleet – Geezers and gaffers galore
Geezers and gaffers is what springs to mind when Ray Winstone is mentioned. That’s all he seems to play these days and it’s all he’s ever really played though this is not necessarily a bad […]
TV | The Great Train Robbery – All the wit and excitement of a Hollywood crime caper
In one of those eerie coincidences that could lead the more cynical among us to question the extremes the BBC are willing to go to for a bit of publicity; Ronnie Biggs the most famous […]
TV | Backchat with Jack Whitehall and his dad – His dad being the highlight
“You know your mummy, she’s got very strong wrists.” God, you would hate to hear those words coming from your father, yet Michael Whitehall, the father of comedian Jack Whitehall, is just the sort of […]
TV | Last Tango in Halifax – More Alan Bennett than Wuthering Heights
You could be forgiven for having missed the first series of the BBC’s Last Tango in Halifax, not to be mistaken for the Marlon Brando film Last Tango in Paris, under any circumstances, students are […]
TV | Freewheeling with Ross Noble
Ross Noble’s new spontaneity-based show has arrived on our screens, where he goes next, is anyone’s guess. Award winning stand-up comedian Ross Noble was made famous for his brilliant ability to manipulate the mundane into […]